An English Haunting
Worth it · Narrative · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $13.99, a BANGER if it drops to $5.91.
- Length
- 6.5h 9.3h to 100%
- Value
- $2.15/hr
- Reviews
- 96% of 457 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.91 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 9 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
While looking for the existence of the Great Beyond, Professor Patrick Moore, aided by a fake medium, will build a device to see the other side, embark on a search for a millenary artifact, and investigate the most haunted manor of 1907 England.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Directx compatible card, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 25 discounts in the 2 years tracked, the median cut is 20 percent, about 5 weeks apart. $5.91 is what it would take to make this a BANGER, and nothing in its history goes that low.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 6 percent on value. It is pricier than 75 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Unavowed ($14.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats VirtuaVerse ($14.99, scores 53).
More about An English Haunting
83 from critics against 96 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
This site sampled 319 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2024 to August 2026.
The drop-off
87% start to 10% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
An English Haunting offers a genuinely charming trip into early 19th-century England, and it's the atmosphere that carries the whole experience. The local color is beautifully realized, and the game does a lovely job weaving in the social and philosophical discourses of the period - you really feel like you're moving through that specific historical moment rather than a generic period backdrop. Mechanically, it's...
2 more reviews
The adventure games this dev makes have an impressive amount of spritework in the many different locations you end up passing through. The puzzles in this one are very straightforward but charming, I doubt you'd end up getting stuck on any of them. I love how much effort is made to make this 'historically' authentic with period references to horror authors and entertainment in the 1800s and very early 1900s...
Great point and click game. Beautiful pixel art and animations. Set in 1907 in England, the plot follows an investigation into the disappearance of a collegue, as well as investigating paranormal phenomena. You visit a range of locations and the puzzles are about right in terms of difficulty. The game is quite dialogue heavy, but I enjoyed the dialogue and the characters (my only gripe was there were a couple of...
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Cite this score
An English Haunting scores 70/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2474030/an-english-hauntingReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.